{"id":52490,"date":"2015-01-19T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=52490"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:12","slug":"freespeech-but-we-wont-cover-your-skin-or-honor-your-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/01\/freespeech-but-we-wont-cover-your-skin-or-honor-your-god\/","title":{"rendered":"#Freespeech, but We Won’t Cover Your Skin or Honor Your God"},"content":{"rendered":"

A poem in solidarity and honor of persecuted and targeted Muslims, the latest victims of the “Civilization.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Yo the victims of American drone strikes,
\nYou and your lot ain’t White.
\nSo, we won’t fight
\nFight for your right to life
\nYou lives ain’t newsworthy.
\nDon’t you dare be testy!<\/p>\n

Our man Murdoch said, “all yo Muslims, A-P-O-L-O-G-I-Z-E” for your share!<\/p>\n

How dare you demand our coverage to be fair?!!
\nWe ain’t F-A-I-R. Never.
\nNot in the past, Not now. Not in the foreseeable future.
\nThat’s right. We are the Whites!<\/p>\n

We rule the waves – air or ocean.
\nWe give you lot the Net.
\nWe decide what IS right.
\nWhat is news.
\nWhat is true.<\/p>\n

We only fight for our (White) fellas’ Right
\nTo take the piss at your Brown Prophet the Bearded Mohamed.
\nTo caricature and satirize any subject we like
\nIt is our Inalienable Right.<\/p>\n

Inviolable is Our Freedom to insult
\nTo offend is Divine.
\nGod created us all Equal.
\nAh, we Whites are more equal!<\/p>\n

But, don’t you dare being anti-Semite
\nBibi (Netanyaho) wouldn’t like!
\nWe’ll feed Muslim pests to Mossad, CIA, MI6 and other termites.
\nTorture you they might.<\/p>\n

“The Rights of Man” is only for the Whites
\nYou ain’t like one of us.
\nYou ain’t White!<\/p>\n

How many of you dead, Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani, Yemeni?
\n100,000? 600,000?
\nNo, not yet Genocides.
\nGenocides is what we specialize!
\nWe lost count of “Pakis” whom our Brothers in Pentagon gleefully strike?
\nWeddings? Children? Infants? Pregnant women?
\nWho gives a fuck! Your lives are “collateral damage”-able.
\nThat’s right!
\nYou ain’t Men, boys (and girls)!<\/p>\n

Your lives ain’t worth Parisian protests on Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es.
\nHow dare you expect Louis Vuitton to shut for your rights.
\nYou have no Rights!<\/p>\n

Your non-White plight deserves no S-O-L-I-D-A-R-I-T-Y
\nS-O-L-I-T-A-R-Y at Gitmo is what you will get.
\nThat’s right.<\/p>\n

What? No trial?
\nStop crying Innocence!
\nYou tell that to the Americans.
\nThey would laugh out loud at your ass.
\nYo Muslims are presumed guilty.
\nTha<\/a>t’s our White justice!
\nTake it or leave it.<\/p>\n

Alright! Alright!
\nWe are journos’.
\nAnd we ain’t governments! We ain’t judges!
\nThat’s right.<\/p>\n

We are The M-E-DI-A
\nWe decide your R-E-A-L-I-T-I-E-S.
\nWe decide who you are.
\nWe define what is D-I-V-I-N-E.
\nWe have the Power to describe – but no brains to analyze.
\nResponsibility? What responsibility?!!!
\nResponsibility for a bunch of us Orientalist hired mouths?
\nYou must be kidding!!!
\nWe are indeed in the employ of “Western Civilization”
\nWhich gives us templates to write on.
\nHeard of T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-M? National Security?
\nOrange Alerts? Embedded Media?<\/p>\n

We beat our Civilization’s war drums – from Times of London to Times in New York.
\nwhenever, where-ever , however Freedom wants to march<\/p>\n

“Freedom will beat terror”
\n10 Downing-Man thundered.
\nDave, tell that to Robespierre!<\/p>\n

It is our Value – not just our Right to trash whatever we think is right.
\nWhatever is Holy is your Holy, not Our Holy.
\nWe are Voltaire’s bastards.
\nFanatical Rationalists!<\/p>\n

We are a band of brothers – British, American, Australian, German, French, Spanish, Danish –
\nWe are all con\u00b7quis\u00b7ta\u00b7dors.
\nFor 500 years, we’ve been singing the same hymns<\/p>\n

We ain’t scared of your AK-47s.
\nWe have the Pen.
\nThe Drones,
\nThe Nukes.
\nThe Bases.
\nWe have the CIA and EIT (Enhanced Interrogation Techniques).<\/p>\n

Our Pen is mightier than AK-47s and your suicide belts
\nBacked by other White Boys’ toys.<\/p>\n

Our mighty Pen knows no responsibility.
\nAs journos, we show no conscience.
\nCompassion is for the Dalai Lama and his Buddhist groupies.<\/p>\n

F-R-A-T-E-N-I-T-Y is White Only.
\nHow dare you “Mus(ilms)” demand L-I-B-E-R-T-Y!!??
\nBoys, it ain’t a property.
\nIt cannot be sold or bought – like Saudi’s oil.
\n“Foul!”, don’t you dare cry!<\/p>\n

You don’t have the right skin for Libert\u00e9, \u00e9galit\u00e9, fraternit\u00e9
\nYou ain’t MEN.
\nwho can spell E-Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y.<\/p>\n

How dare you dream of fair coverage?!!<\/p>\n

Our tolerance isn’t colour-blind.
\nEurope ain’t for you, Boys.
\nCertainly not for the Mus!
\nMartin dude is dead in his Dream of a Color-Blind World.
\nFerguson is the name of the game.
\nOnly White lives matter.<\/p>\n

“Boko Haram’s ‘deadliest massacre’:
\n2000 feared dead in Nigeria”
\nBut, who in London or Paris or Sydney gives a fuck?<\/p>\n

Go back where you came from, Boys!
\nEurope ain’t your home.<\/p>\n

Detention, oppression, subjugation, torture, droning – all part of our Right.
\n“The Rights of Man”
\nThat’s right.
\nOur Rights are backed up by our Might.
\nPen is mightier when it is backed by anti-Terror fight.<\/p>\n

Compliance, Compliance. Compliance.
\nSubmission, Submission. Submission.
\nAgain remember resistance is futile.
\nAs always.
\nSo lie down, shut up and take it!<\/p>\n

Our man Murdoch controls the media.
\nHe guides us White journos to define your R-E-A-L-I-T-Y.
\nRupert wants you to say “S-O-R-R-Y”.
\nFor standing up to the Man, the White Man.
\nYou worship the God of Terror,
\nDon’t you, Don’t you!
\nMotherfuckers, remember!
\nOur Goddess is named LIBERTY.<\/p>\n

So, shut up, lie down and let the water-boarding begin!<\/p>\n

Lest you boys prefer sodomy!<\/p>\n

That’s right.
\nGeneva Conventions are alight.
\nDuck Cheney says Torture is our Right!<\/p>\n

That’s a sign of Progress.
\nThat’s our American values.
\nOur French Mission Civilita!<\/p>\n

Freedom is on the march.
\nOur Global Terror will defeat your local terror, Boys!
\nTaste the flavor of our White Racist Fanaticism!<\/p>\n

______________________________<\/p>\n

Dr. Maung Zarni<\/em>, Associate Fellow, the University of Malay<\/em>a, <\/em>is a <\/em>member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment,<\/em> founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website http:\/\/www.maungzarni.net<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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